Desire Quotes

Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed

~ Gerald Mills

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

~ S.a. Tawks

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

~ André Maurois

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...—I want you like an animal...or a whore.

~ Ayn Rand

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...I want you like an animal...or a whore.

~ Ayn Rand

When they lay in bed together it was—as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded—an act of violence. It was surrender, made the more complete by the force of their resistance. It was an act of tension, as the great things on earth are things of tension. It was tense as electricity, the force fed on resistance, rushing through wires of metal stretched tight; it was tense as water made into power by the restraining violence of a dam. The touch of his skin against hers was not a caress, but a wave of pain, it became pain by being wanted too much, by releasing in fulfillment all the past hours of desire and denial.

~ Ayn Rand

Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you.

~ Fumio Obata

And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this moment; if they knew that she was thinking of a man in a quarry, thinking of his body with a sharp intimacy as one does not think of another’s body but only of one’s own. She smiled; the cold purity of her face prevented them from seeing the nature of that smile.

~ Ayn Rand

We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not.

~ Tim Hiller

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

~ Ronald Rolheiser

Desire is the straw that stirs the drink.

~ Ronald Rolheiser

Forget 'bout your past and forget 'bout your resources, make you eligible to any of your desire.

~ Shailesh Mishra

God’s desire is to reveal Himself to everyone, yet He will manifest Himself only to those who love Him.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You have to watch them all the time,’ she assured me darkly. ‘Even if the spirit’s willing, the flesh is weak!

~ Trisha Ashley

Desire is a frightening thing.

~ Sōseki Natsume

You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Let me say that whoever invented wanting, whoever came up with desire, whoever had the first one and let us all catch it like a hot-pink plague, I would like to tell that person that it wasn't fair of him or her to unleash such a thing upon the world without leaving us a warranty or at the very least an instruction manual about how to manage, how to live with, how to understand this thing that can happen in a person against her will, by which I mean desire and the need it gnaws in us and the shadow it leaves when it's gone.

~ Catherine Lacey

Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as the great gust of agitation which, now and then, sweeps over the human spirit. For then the creature in whose company we are seeking amusement at the moment, her lot is cast, her fate and ours decided, that is the creature whom we shall henceforward love. It is not necessary that she should have pleased us, up till then, any more, or even as much as others. All that is necessary is that our taste for her should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled so soon as - in the moment when she has failed to meet us - for the pleasure which we were on the point of enjoying in her charming company is abruptly substituted an anxious torturing desire, whose object is the creature herself, an irrational, absurd desire, which the laws of civilised society make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage - the insensate, agonising desire to possess her.

~ Marcel Proust

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

~ Anaïs Nin

Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Inherent in every living thing is an insatiable hunger, the innate desire to express life by freely and fully being “what” it was uniquely created to be. To personalize this, consider the possibility that there was a time when you were a “what” before you were a “who.” If you can wrap your mind around that possibility, then, the question to explore is, what were you before you became a who—and why did you become the who you uniquely are when there are so many other “who”s on the planet you might have been? While this may seem like a bit of a paradoxi- cal tongue twister, it is the quintessential question that requires exploration if you are to follow your true North Star back to your point of origin, where you’ll find your authentic self waiting to weave itself into the fabric of your human life today and every day.

~ Dennis Merritt Jones

Where can we find a worshiper who envy a sparrow or a swallow just because of their uninterrupted access to God's altar (Psalm 84:3). Our Genuineness in worship is not revealed by our physical presence in the church but by our desire of being in His Presence always and behold Him (Psalm 84:10).

~ Santosh Thankachan

He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having feigned for so long, when in Odette's company, a sort of indifference, he had not now, by a demonstration of jealousy, given her that proof of the excess of his own passion which, in a pair of lovers, fully and finally dispenses the recipient from the obligation to love the other enough. He never spoke to her of this misadventure, he cased even to think of it himself. But now and then his thoughts in their wandering course would come upon this memory where it lay unobserved, would startle it into life, thrust it more deeply down into his consciousness, and leave him aching with a sharp, far-rooted pain.

~ Marcel Proust

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

~ Mary Renault

... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart.

~ Marcel Proust

It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it literally unreal--with pictures of its satisfaction. Pornography, for example, can easily be used, among many other things, to pre-empt the elaboration of erotic fantasy; it can be, in Masud Kahn's words, 'the stealer of dreams'. To put it in old-fashioned Freudian language, fantasies of satisfaction are defences against desiring, the attempt in fantasy to take the risk out of desire; or to put it in more Kleinian language, fantasies of satisfaction are attacks upon desire; they are, in fact, against desiring, both up against it and in opposition to it. Our fantasies of satisfaction are clues to our fears about desiring. Wishful fantasies are the original sins of omission.

~ Adam Phillips

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how the impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

~ Anne Carson

I want to need you.

~ Amanda Mosher

to succeed at anything, you must want it very much. Desire must be in evidence in order to attract

~ William Walker Atkinson

You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.

~ Ashish Patel

Fuck! The things she does to me with a simple kiss.

~ Rene Webb

Nothing turned a man on faster than a woman that couldn't get enough of what he had to offer.

~ Rose Wynters

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

~ Sarah Waters

All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee.

~ Roman Payne

You get in life that which is your deep driving desire.

~ Debasish Mridha

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

You see, I know you, Violet. You've tormented me in my dreams with your body too many times to count. Now you're here in the flesh, with your ripe curves and innocent eyes, an angel hidden in the body of a temptress.

~ Rose Wynters